[TriLUG] OT: Quiet SCSI drive

[Owen Berry]

Very sure. I can run the machine off a Gentoo livecd with no drives in
and it sounds great. I considered just running it off a livecd for a while,
except that to do anything useful I would need to roll my own.

These are 2GB Seagate Barracuda's, probably from 1998. How do I find the
specs, and/or step them down? Preferrably without having to put them
back in? :-)

Owen

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:42:18PM -0400, Lee Fickenscher wrote:
> Are you sure it is the drives making all the noise?
> If so, stepping down to 10k RPM drives may help, though if they are  
> already 10k drives you are pretty much stuck.
> 
> On Aug 4, 2006, at 2:20 PM, Owen Berry wrote:
> 
> >I have a Sun Ultra Enterprise 2 sitting under my desk, as a free gift
> >from my company due to lack of use. Nothing great, but it has 2  
> >network
> >cards, dual processor, and 1G memory. Only problem is that it has 2  
> >SCSI
> >drives that are so noisy that people from across the passage came  
> >to see
> >what was going on the first time I started it up.
> >
> >Is it possible to get a relatively quiet SCSI drive that wouldn't be a
> >noise polluter sitting under my desk? And if so, what should I be
> >looking for? I don't need anything large ... just enough to get a  
> >basic
> >Linux or BSD server running.